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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism

From Ambition to Action? The Sustainable Development Goals Ten Years On #ILW25 With: Perpétua Chéry, @freyadw.bsky.social, Giovanna E. Gismondi, John H. Knox, and Vanessa Racehorse. Register for ILW25 here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...

Happy to be representing @abilaofficial.bsky.social at ASIL-Abroad in Singapore! Thank you to the @asilorg.bsky.social for an excellent first day.

The next episode of International Law Chats is live! Alison, Chiara, and Milena interviewed Rez Gardi (R-SEAT, University of Auckland) about the global refugee crisis and the importance of refugee-led representation in international affairs. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0Z3y...

Unbelievable: ICE arrests workers on the front line fighting the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington's Olympic Mountains. Thank ICE when you breathe in that smoke this week. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @conradswanson.bsky.social @isabellabreda.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Request from the Int Commission of Jurists for Pres Iwasawa to investigate Sebutinde's statement & to remove her form the #SAf v #Israel case. #ICJ #intLaw www.icj.org/icj-communic...

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live! Alison MacDonald and Chiara Giorgetti interviewed a Panel of Experts about the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion ‘Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.’ Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2yBV...

Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

One of my final days in Germany, on a Mosel river cruise! We move (cat included) to South Korea in just a few days ☺️🇰🇷

One of the best things I get to do at my job is help choose Emerging Voices - aka, fascinating young scholars - and provide them with the funding to travel to and stay in New York City. Read about this year's brilliant speakers below!

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

Counterpoint:

ANNOUNCING: #ILW25 Opening Plenary speaker - Elinor Hammarskjöld! Elinor Hammarskjöld is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. ABILA President Michael Scharf will interview Ms. Hammarskjöld on October 23, 2025. Get tickets here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live! Chiara Giorgetti and Milena Sterio interviewed our Chair, @leilasadat1.bsky.social, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/1bcl...

Tickets for International Law Weekend 2025 are now live! Early bird prices are available until September 23, 2025. Register here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...

Marko Milanovic has been up all night writing this clear and incisive blog: "To conclude, even if the broadest possible (legally plausible) understanding of anticipatory self-defence was taken as a correct, Israel’s use of force against Iran would be illegal."

My first law review article, 'International Law and the Child, 100 Years Later: A Dichotomous History of Children’s Rights, Protections, and Freedoms', is out! Thank you to the Oregon Review of International Law for their streamlined editorial process. scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/fad07e...

Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research apnews.com/article/canc...

"The EPA has considered power plants a significant source of dangerous greenhouse gases since 2015. But today, Trump’s EPA said, actually, never mind." @emilypont.bsky.social breaks down the EPA's new proposal to erase a decade of power plant emissions rules.

Emerging Voices 2025 Panel The ILW Organizing Committee invites the submission of abstracts relating to the theme of “Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.” Accepted applicants will be invited to present their papers at the Emerging Voices Panel. www.ila-americanbranch.org/emerging-voi...

In honor of ILW 2025’s theme of ‘Crisis as Catalyst,’ ABILA is hosting its next blogging symposium with the International Humanitarian Law Committee. Editors for this Symposium are Professor Gabor Rona, Anne Harper, and @freyadw.bsky.social. See more here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/blogging-sym...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Thrilled to announce my promotion to Chief Operating Officer with @abilaofficial.bsky.social. With that, please listen to the next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, here! open.spotify.com/episode/7v1T...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Happy that my article 'No future for future generations: who is international environmental law for?' is out! It Qs the who of FGs, thinking about race, class, gender, disability and anthropocentrism, before deploying queer & decolnial theory to recast the concept www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

MASS LOBBY AGAINST EHRC GUIDANCE Trans+ people and allies - join us in Parliament on the 25th June Register and find more information on our website: transsolidarityalliance.com

My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

Many thanks to the current US government for giving us a textbook example of violating the object and purpose of the Paris Agreement and the due diligence obligation in customary international law to address climate change. Let’s prepare compensation claims.

I’ve been elected to the ILA Committee ‘International Law and the SDGs’! Thank you to the American Branch (@abilaofficial.bsky.social) for the nomination. 🌞

🚨 UK offshore marine protected areas endured 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom-trawl fishing last year Bottom trawling destroys wildlife & habitats🪸 Take action with @oceanauk.bsky.social to help call for a ban on this brutal practice in ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 🌊

Call for podcasts: "Childhood and Migration." Proposals are due by 7 June. The podcast series - edited by our members, Adrienne Atterberry and Karina Ruiz - will be published by CCYSC. It builds on the blog series jointly published by CLPN and CCYSC last year.

7-2 SCOTUS decision again. Pretty clear that if they had a case where the Trump administration said the Earth was flat, or gravity doesn't exist, Alito and Thomas would side with Trump. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July. We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.

“Unfortunately, right now, it looks like the polluters won.” Experts say that the mass of scientists being forced out of the EPA will slow down any future regulation of chemicals.

'Fossil fuels, the source of 75% of greenhouse gases, are nowhere to be seen in the negotiations. That must change if Brazil is really willing to make its mutirão – a turning point in the fight for a livable planet.' Read more in our article with @obsclima.bsky.social on @climatechangenews.com 👇

The newest episode of International Law Chats is live! Look WHOs Back? with Professor Gian Luca Burci (@gvagrad.bsky.social). He discusses the @who.int pandemic convention and the future of global health law. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ePG...

Tens of *billions* of US taxpayer dollars to fund the Israeli military and its 60+ day blockade. Tens of thousands of Palestinian babies and children now facing malnutrition. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

We’ve extended the deadline! If you have any ILW questions, please shoot them my way.

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Anyone wondering why arch neoliberal Blair is speaking against the scientific imperative to stop burning fossil fuels this decade? euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...

Announcing: the International Law Weekend 2025 Organizing Committee! Including @jesspeake.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, @corrarino.bsky.social, @ewickeri.bsky.social, @freyadw.bsky.social and @leilasadat1.bsky.social www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social hits it out of the park, again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Thank you to Sumudu Atapattu and @law.wisc.edu for including me in your Civil Dialogue on Climate Justice!

The Extreme Weather Report, April 24, 2025: This is your weather at 1.5°C/2.7°F of global warming from burning oil, gas, and coal. #extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news

Excited to take part in this climate initiative tomorrow! ✨

One more day & my book can be found in bookstores in the UK. If you can't wait, you can read a big part of the first chapter here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... you miss out though why I chose to talk about the colonial-fossil narrative, instead of say the neo-liberal-patriarchial.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.